Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422643AbWBVAhk (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Feb 2006 19:37:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422640AbWBVAhk (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Feb 2006 19:37:40 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:60890 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422643AbWBVAhj (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Feb 2006 19:37:39 -0500 Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 16:34:11 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: Andrew Morton cc: Kay Sievers , penberg@cs.helsinki.fi, gregkh@suse.de, bunk@stusta.de, rml@novell.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, johnstul@us.ibm.com Subject: Re: 2.6.16-rc4: known regressions In-Reply-To: <20060221162104.6b8c35b1.akpm@osdl.org> Message-ID: References: <20060217231444.GM4422@stusta.de> <84144f020602190306o3149d51by82b8ccc6108af012@mail.gmail.com> <20060219145442.GA4971@stusta.de> <1140383653.11403.8.camel@localhost> <20060220010205.GB22738@suse.de> <1140562261.11278.6.camel@localhost> <20060221225718.GA12480@vrfy.org> <20060221153305.5d0b123f.akpm@osdl.org> <20060222000429.GB12480@vrfy.org> <20060221162104.6b8c35b1.akpm@osdl.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 980 Lines: 29 On Tue, 21 Feb 2006, Andrew Morton wrote: > > We. Don't. Do. That. > > Please either restore the old events so we can have a 6-12 month transition > period or revert the patch. I agree. This stupid argument of "HAL is part of the kernel, so we can break it" is _bogus_. The fact is, if changing the kernel breaks user-space, it's a regression. IT DOES NOT MATTER WHETHER IT'S IN /sbin/hotplug OR ANYTHING ELSE. If it was installed by a distribution, it's user-space. If it got installed by "vmlinux", it's the kernel. The only piece of user-space code we ship with the kernel is the system call trampoline etc that the kernel sets up. THOSE interfaces we can really change, because it changes with the kernel. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/